大学英语四级阅读的200篇: Unit 37 passage 1_大学英语阅读

大学英语四级阅读的200篇: Unit 37 passage 1

　　Upon leaving Germany, Einstein went first to France, then to Belgium, and then to England. There he received an invitation from the United States. The Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, New Jersey, offered him a lifetime professorship. He accepted, but he asked so small a salary that to maintain its own pay-scale the Institute had to give him more than he requested. 252

　　Such behaviour was characteristic of Einstein. He had little interest in money, though he could have been very wealthy. He once turned down an offer of $ 1,000 a minute to speak on the radio. On another occasion he put a check for $ 1,500 from the Rockefeller Foundation between the pages of a book to help him remember where he had stopped reading. Then, having used the check as a bookmark, he lost the book!

　　In 1955 Einstein became an American citizen. When interviewed about his new country, he told reporters: Seven years ago, when asked for the reason I left Germany, I made this statement: As long as I have any choice, I will only stay in a country where political liberty, toleration, and equality of all citizens before the law is the rule. Political liberty implies liberty to express ones political opinions orally and in writing, and a tolerant respect for any and every individual opinion. Einstein lived the rest of his life in the United States.

　　Much of the great scientists time was devoted to efforts to build world peace. He also found time to practice playing his violin, for he loved music and was a better than average violinist. He lived quietly in Princeton, working at the Institute and entertaining himself with his violin in his simple home.